Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
ALEXANDER POPEAs with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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This long disease, my life.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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